Projects to help the young have ranged from a scheme to encourage young Afro-Caribbeans ‘stay at school' for higher education to the endowment of a Faculty Directorship and Chair of Management Studies at Oxford University, providing the first funding for such undergraduate business studies at the University. This paved the way for the development of the Säid Business School and in September 2004 the Foundation announced its initiation of a new post at the School, the Peter Moores Lecturership in Chinese Business Studies.

The Foundation has funded a bursary in fine art at the University of Ulster in Belfast, supported the Royal Yachting Association to build teams of young windsurfers, and encouraged the introduction of new initiatives with ChildLine for the prevention of child abuse. Substantial help was given to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Development Trust whilst annual PMF Scholarships established in 1971 have provided hundreds of young singers with practical support at the outset of their careers, enabling a significant number to become international opera stars.

The Peter Moores Barbados Trust continues the work of the Foundation in the Eastern Caribbean.  In 1995 a Chair of Tropical Horticulture at the University of the West Indies in Barbados was established, a position which is combined with that of Director of the Andromeda Gardens, one of the most important botanical gardens in the world.

The Peter Moores biennial contemporary art exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool from 1971 to 1986, gained an international reputation. In 1994 a permanent Transatlantic Slave Trade Gallery, initiated by Sir Peter, opened at Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum, with the aim of fostering discussion about the heritage and true history of the slave trade, a subject previously rarely confronted fully by white or black people. The overwhelming success of this project led to the development of the International Slavery Museum which opened on the same site in August 2007.

In 1993 the Foundation acquired Compton Verney, an 18th century mansion in Warwickshire. Compton Verney House Trust, an independent charity funded by the Foundation was established to transform the dilapidated mansion into an art gallery of international standard, designed particularly to encourage newcomers to discover art in a welcoming environment. The gallery was opened by HRH the Prince of Wales in March 2004. It has since been awarded Museum status and in June 2004 it received a RIBA Award for its reconstruction and restoration (by architects Stanton Williams and Rodney Melville & Partners). Compton Verney offers a programme of major temporary exhibitions, a newly-built Learning Centre and houses six permanent collections created or acquired especially for the gallery. The collections, which continue to grow, comprise: works from the ‘Golden' period of Neapolitan art, 1600-1800; late medieval German paintings and sculpture, 1450-1600; archaic bronzes and pottery from China, dating back to 8000 BC; British portraits and furniture from 1550-1750; British Folk Art (Andras Kalman's unique collection, acquired by the Foundation to prevent it being split up and sold abroad) and the Marx-Lambert Collection of folk art and designs bequeathed to Compton Verney by the graphic artist and textile designer Enid Marx.

During the 11-year renovation of Compton Verney, works of art from its collections have been loaned to galleries and museums in the UK and abroad, including Tate Britain, the National Gallery, the V & A, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, the National Trust, the Ashmolean and British Museums, the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the Mainfrankisches Museum in Würzburg, the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, the Museo Correr in Venice and the Caserta Royal Palace in Naples.

Prior to the opening of Compton Verney art gallery in 2004, it has been opera that has given the Foundation its most public 'face'. Since Sir Peter banged on the doors of EMI 38 years ago in order to capture ‘live' the ‘Goodall Ring' at the London Coliseum, the Foundation has enabled well over 80 recordings to be produced: Chandos Records' Opera in English series – ‘Opera that speaks your language' – is now the largest recorded collection of operas sung in English whilst Opera Rara's recordings of rare bel canto operas have opened up an immensely rich repertory previously only accessible to scholars.

In live opera performance, the Foundation has encouraged the creation of new work and schemes to attract new audiences, financed the publication of scores, especially for world premières of modern operas, and enabled rarely heard works to be staged by British opera companies and festivals. Its latest project is producing a film of an opera - that is to say, not a film of a stage production but a made-for-cinema film of Mozart's The Magic Flute, aimed at audiences who would not normally consider going to the theatre for an opera performance. Directed by Kenneth Branagh with an English translation by Stephen Fry, the film of The Magic Flute was released in the UK in November 2007.